Ratings do not matter, period! The new trend by some of America’s best boulderers is to not rate problems. That’s fine, but guessing at a relative difficulty does not hurt either. The V Scale cannot be directly compared to the Yosemite scale, yet there have been attempts and a general scheme seems to have emerged. The following has been supplied by inference to published comparisons and graded problems, with only a few modifications. A case for uniformity could be made, and I have tried to incorporate some continuity between the grades and the size of each class. Ratings are subjective. The area developers are just learning the scale, and this is their interpretation of the scale, so whatever!

	V-                                     Under 5.10a
	V0                                     5.10 a-b
	V0+                                   5.10 c-d
	V1                                     5.11 a-b
	V2                                     5.11 b-c
	V3                                     5.11 c-d
	V4                                     5.12 a-b
	V5                                     5.12 b-c
	V6                                     5.12 c-d
	V7                                     5.13 a-b
	V8                                     5.13 b-c
	V9                                     5.13 c-d
	V10                                   5.14 a
	V11                                   5.14 b
	V12                                   5.14 c
	V13                                   5.14 d
	V14                                   5.15
	V15                                   Hard

Or something like that or altogether different.

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